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World Music Pedagogy for the General Music Classroom
Music Education workshop with Dr. Sarah Bartolome
World Music Pedagogy for the General Music Classroom
Join us for a morning of singing, dancing, and playing as we explore applications of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) in the general music classroom! After a brief overview of and rationale for the WMP framework are presented, we will explore WMP through participatory music making activities featuring musical traditions from around the world, including Lithuania, Zimbabwe, the United States, and Panama. We will also address issues of repertoire selection from a WMP perspective, tools for developing WMP lessons, and connections to Kodaly Pedagogy and Culturally Responsive Approaches. Come engage in some joyful music making as we explore the world’s musical cultures!
This event is free and open to the public and cosponsored by the Osher School of Music and the Maine Music Educators Association
Dr. Sarah J. Bartolome, an Associate Professor of Music Education at Northwestern University, is a children’s music specialist with an interest in world music for the classroom. She earned degrees in music education from Ithaca College (BM), Northwestern University (MM), and the University of Washington (PhD). She is also a fully certified Kodaly educator, having received all three levels of certification from the New England Conservatory’s Kodaly Music Institute and serving on the faculty of the Kodaly Levels Program of Seattle. Dr. Bartolome’s scholarship in music education has been published in such journals as the Journal of Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, the International Journal of Community Music, the Kodaly Envoy, and the Music Educators Journal. Dr. Bartolome is the author of World Music Pedagogy V: Choral Music Education (Routledge, 2019) and co-author of a forthcoming book on gender expansive music education (Routledge, 2025). Her research interests include participatory music making as social capital, world music pedagogy, gender expansive music education, and trauma-informed approaches in music education. She is a frequent clinician at regional, national, and international conferences and has completed music fieldwork in Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Panama, and Vietnam. In 2013, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Vilnius, Lithuania where she spent five months teaching at the Vilnius Pedagogical University and conducting research with local folk ensembles and choirs. At Northwestern, Dr. Bartolome serves as the Co-Director of the Music for Childhood Wellness Initiative, an interdisciplinary research effort investigating the impact of group singing for children. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at Northwestern University, she also serves as the Associate Director of the Evanston Children’s Choir.
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